Credit claiming
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Oct 10, 2026 · Posts on X (state legislators) · policy discussion; credit claiming; Immigration; Crime and Law Enforcement · Source

8.5% of 1,108 statements contain a personal attack (94 statements); the average for State Senate Republicans is 2.3%. Ranks 23rd of 354, where 1st is the highest rate.
An AI model reads each of Taylor’s posts on X and marks whether it attacks a person’s character, integrity or loyalty. The rate is the share of statements marked; it is compared with the average among State Senate Republicans and ranked against the same group.
6 measures against State Senate Republicans. 4.9% of Taylor’s statements use an extreme label, 3.8 times the State Senate Republican average of 1.3%. Taylor reported $442.7K in the 2026 cycle, in the top tenth of State Senate Republicans (median $46.2K).
The measures on which Taylor sits furthest from the middle of State Senate Republicans, each against the same group, with the CSIP score when there is one. Every number is explained in its own section below.
Personal attacks
State Senate Republicans average 2.3% · ranks 23rd of 354
Party unity
Tennessee Senate average 95.3% · ranks 3rd of 33 · 15 votes against the majority of Tennessee Senate Republicans
Extreme labels
State Senate Republicans average 1.3% · ranks 24th of 354
Attendance
Tennessee Senate average 99.6% · ranks 4th of 33 · 4,555 roll calls
Itemized, 2026
State Senate Republicans’ median $46.2K · ranks 79th of 936
CSIP ideology
Right of 0, the centre of the scale · ± 0.04
Peer group: State Senate Republicans. Rank 1 is the highest value in the group; the thick bar is Taylor, the thin grey bar the peer average. The headline is the measure on which Taylor is most unusual among peers (Methods, §08).
Taylor attacks opponents personally more than 93% of State Senate Republicans. Personal attacks in 8.5% of 1,108 statements, against 2.3% for the average State Senate Republican; 23rd of 354.
An AI model reads each of Taylor’s 1,108 statements in the TN 2025–26 session (1,108 posts on X) and marks the kinds of statement it contains: a personal attack, criticism of a policy, discussion of policy, bipartisanship, credit claiming, and extreme labels. A statement can carry several. Every rate is compared with the average for State Senate Republicans and ranked among them.
Share of statements carrying each label, the TN 2025–26 session
| Row | Taylor | Peers |
|---|---|---|
| Policy discussion | 46% | 37% |
| Credit claiming | 31% | 15% |
| Personal attacks | 8% | 2% |
| Policy criticism | 8% | 9% |
| Bipartisanship | 2% | 2% |
statements classified
1,108 posts on X.
| Part | Value |
|---|---|
| posts on X | 1,108 |
The thick bar is Taylor; the thin grey bar is the average State Senate Republicans. A longer thick bar means Taylor does this more than peers. Rank 1 is the highest rate in the group.
Taylor used extreme labels in 4.9% of statements, 3.8 times the peer average. 54 statements, most often aimed at Justin Pearson; peers 1.3%.
Targets named alongside an extreme label, by number of statements
Calls a politician, a party or a policy “far left”, “far right”, “MAGA”, “extreme”, “radical”, “woke”, “fascist” or “communist”. The target is who or what the label was aimed at. The lists show the five most used labels and targets; the toggle shows the rest.
Share of statements per month, the TN 2025–26 session
| Column | Statements | Personal attacks | Policy criticism | Policy discussion | Bipartisanship | Credit claiming | Extreme labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan ’25 | 60 | 21.7% | 26.7% | 33.3% | 0.0% | 10.0% | 0.0% |
| Feb ’25 | 37 | 24.3% | 8.1% | 37.8% | 0.0% | 29.7% | 8.1% |
| Mar ’25 | 33 | 12.1% | 6.1% | 42.4% | 0.0% | 21.2% | 9.1% |
| Apr ’25 | 32 | 9.4% | 9.4% | 56.3% | 3.1% | 25.0% | 0.0% |
| May ’25 | 38 | 10.5% | 7.9% | 55.3% | 2.6% | 44.7% | 2.6% |
| Jun ’25 | 50 | 8.0% | 0.0% | 48.0% | 6.0% | 46.0% | 16.0% |
| Jul ’25 | 32 | 3.1% | 9.4% | 75.0% | 6.3% | 43.8% | 0.0% |
| Aug ’25 | 43 | 4.7% | 7.0% | 53.5% | 4.7% | 41.9% | 4.7% |
| Sep ’25 | 72 | 2.8% | 15.3% | 44.4% | 2.8% | 30.6% | 2.8% |
| Oct ’25 | 90 | 8.9% | 11.1% | 50.0% | 1.1% | 33.3% | 0.0% |
| Nov ’25 | 42 | 19.1% | 9.5% | 42.9% | 0.0% | 33.3% | 9.5% |
| Dec ’25 | 38 | 7.9% | 10.5% | 63.2% | 5.3% | 50.0% | 2.6% |
| Jan ’26 | 55 | 9.1% | 3.6% | 67.3% | 0.0% | 23.6% | 0.0% |
| Feb ’26 | 61 | 6.6% | 11.5% | 49.2% | 6.6% | 37.7% | 4.9% |
| Mar ’26 | 84 | 7.1% | 8.3% | 42.9% | 5.9% | 46.4% | 3.6% |
| Apr ’26 | 22 | 4.5% | 4.5% | 36.4% | 13.6% | 50.0% | 0.0% |
| May ’26 | 75 | 5.3% | 0.0% | 17.3% | 0.0% | 36.0% | 12.0% |
| Jun ’26 | 63 | 4.8% | 4.8% | 36.5% | 0.0% | 41.3% | 4.8% |
| Jul ’26 | 52 | 1.9% | 0.0% | 53.8% | 0.0% | 19.2% | 3.9% |
| Aug ’26 | 42 | 2.4% | 2.4% | 52.4% | 0.0% | 7.1% | 9.5% |
| Sep ’26 | 37 | 2.7% | 5.4% | 40.5% | 0.0% | 8.1% | 10.8% |
| Oct ’26 | 50 | 14.0% | 0.0% | 46.0% | 0.0% | 4.0% | 4.0% |
Each row is one kind of statement; each cell is a month, shaded against that row’s own peak (darker = closer to the peak), with the peak and the latest value written at the right. The top row counts statements. The strip covers every month of the TN 2025–26 session, the same span as the rates above, including months with no statements. A month with fewer than 10 statements is hatched, not shaded: one or two posts would swing its rate to 0% or 100%.
Real statements from the classifier’s example set, with the labels it assigned
Credit claiming
The text of this post is on X; follow the source link to read it.
Oct 10, 2026 · Posts on X (state legislators) · policy discussion; credit claiming; Immigration; Crime and Law Enforcement · Source
Personal attacks
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Oct 16, 2026 · Posts on X (state legislators) · personal attacks · Source
Extreme label
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Oct 11, 2026 · Posts on X (state legislators) · extreme label “radical” aimed at Justin Pearson · Source
Up to five recent statements in each category
Overtly questions a named person’s character, integrity or loyalty, or calls them names. Criticising a record or a policy does not count.
Posts on X (state legislators)
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personal attacksSource
Posts on X (state legislators)
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personal attacks · policy discussion · Crime and Law Enforcement · target: Justin PearsonSource
Posts on X (state legislators)
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personal attacks · policy discussion · Commerce · Science, Technology, Communications · target: Justin PearsonSource
Posts on X (state legislators)
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personal attacks · target: J PearsonSource
Posts on X (state legislators)
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personal attacks · target: J PearsonSource
Newest first, the TN 2025–26 session
Five statements at a time, newest first; filters apply to the statements loaded so far. Export saves the statements that match. Sources: 1,108 posts on X.
Crime and Law Enforcement is what Taylor talks about most: 64% of policy statements, 5.5 times the peer share. Talk and legislation agree at 0.56 on a 0–1 scale (State Senate Republicans average 0.52; 103rd of 226).
Each policy statement is tagged by the AI model with one or more of 25 policy areas from the Congressional Research Service list, so the shares say what Taylor talks about. The bills Taylor sponsors and cosponsors carry the same areas, so the two can be compared.
Share of policy statements by area, the TN 2025–26 session
| Row | Taylor | Peers |
|---|---|---|
| Crime and Law Enforcement | 64% | 12% |
| Government Operations and Politics | 13% | 17% |
| Immigration | 11% | 4% |
| Economics and Public Finance | 6% | 12% |
| Education | 4% | 14% |
The thick bar is the share of Taylor’s policy statements in an area; the thin grey bar is the average share for State Senate Republicans. A statement counts once in each of its areas, so shares can add to more than 100%. The five largest areas are shown; the toggle shows the rest.
Left: share of statements by policy area. Right: share of bills. Areas in order of their share of statements; both sides run from 0 to 71%. Grey ticks are the State Senate Republicans averages.
| Area | Talks about | State Senate Republicans, talks about | Legislates on | State Senate Republicans, legislates on |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crime and Law Enforcement | 64% | 12% | 28% | 10% |
| Government Operations and Politics | 13% | 17% | 11% | 12% |
| Immigration | 11% | 4% | 2% | 1% |
| Economics and Public Finance | 6% | 12% | 3% | 3% |
| Education | 4% | 14% | 5% | 10% |
talk-to-bills agreement, 0 to 1
State Senate Republicans average 0.52. Ranks 103rd of 226.
Agreement is 1 minus the distance between the two distributions (Jensen–Shannon): 1 means Taylor legislates on exactly the areas Taylor talks about, in the same proportions; 0 means no overlap. It does not say whether the bills match the positions in the statements, only the subjects. Bills Taylor sponsored count fully, cosponsored bills a quarter. Shown with at least 20 policy statements and 5 bills.
Taylor sits at +0.46 on the CSIP scale, right of 0, more conservative than 65% of State Senate Republicans. Approximate range +0.42 to +0.50, which understates the uncertainty; from 512 donors and 594 roll calls.
CSIP, the lab’s Common-Space Ideal Point, places every official, federal and state, on one left–right scale, estimated from roll-call votes, who gives money to whom, and the text of statements. Negative is left of 0, positive right of it; 0 is the centre of the scale, not a definition of “moderate”.
CSIP ideal point
Approximate range +0.42 to +0.50. From 512 donors and 594 roll calls. Run 2026-10-25T215945. Blue is left of 0, red right of 0.
The outlined dot is Taylor, coloured by its side of 0 (blue left, red right, deeper further out); the bar through it is the approximate range (±1.96 standard errors), which understates the uncertainty; the grey ticks below are the medians of Taylor’s groups. 0 is the centre of the scale, not “moderate” by definition.
The score summarises how an official votes, who funds them and how they talk, relative to everyone else. It does not grade positions as good or bad, and two officials with the same score can differ on any single issue. The ± range is 1.96 standard errors, which understates the uncertainty: scores whose ranges overlap may not differ at all, and even scores whose ranges do not overlap may not differ.
Every official in each group, on the CSIP scale
| Group | Officials | Median | Share left of Taylor |
|---|---|---|---|
| State Senate Republicans | 1083 | +0.4 | 65% |
| Tennessee Senate | 33 | +0.3 | 73% |
| All State Senate | 1909 | +0.1 | 80% |
Every small dot is one official on the same scale, coloured by its own score (blue left of 0, red right of 0, grey at 0, deeper further out) and spread up and down only to keep dots apart; where a group is crowded the dots overlap, and darker patches mean more officials. The large outlined dot is Taylor in every row; the rule is each group’s median. The table under the figure gives the share of each group to the left of Taylor.
Taylor reported $442.7K in the 2026 cycle, 9.6 times the State Senate Republicans’ median of $46.2K. State filings report no small-donation total. 98% of itemized individual money came from Tennessee.
Campaign money from state campaign-finance filings, as aggregates only; the lab never shows an individual donor. Campaigns must report by name every person who gives them more than $200 in a cycle (“itemized”); smaller gifts are reported only as one total (“unitemized”), so donor counts, donor states, employers and occupations describe itemized donors only. State filings report no small-gift total, so these figures add up itemized contributions only.
itemized in the 2026 cycle
From 221 itemized donors. State Senate Republicans’ median $46.2K.
Each square is one percent of itemized contributions in the 2026 cycle.
| Source | Amount | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Individuals (itemized) | $220.6K | 49.8% |
| PACs and other committees | $221.9K | 50.1% |
| Party committees | $250 | 0.1% |
Totals say how much a campaign took in, not how it was spent, and they rise sharply when a seat is up for election; compare cycles with that in mind.
Itemized contributions, 2022 to 2026. The grey line is the State Senate Republicans’ median for 2026.
| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| 2022 cycle | $343.9K |
| 2024 cycle | $119.3K |
| 2026 cycle | $442.7K |
Itemized contributions by donor state. 98% came from Tennessee.
State filings report no total for small gifts.
Not reported in state filings.
Individuals who gave more than $200, by donor state
| State | Value |
|---|---|
| Tennessee | $215.2K |
| Texas | $1,500 |
| Mississippi | $1,100 |
| Arkansas | $1,000 |
| District of Columbia | $500 |
| Florida | $500 |
| Alaska | No data |
| Maine | No data |
| Vermont | No data |
| New Hampshire | No data |
| Washington | No data |
| Idaho | No data |
| Montana | No data |
| North Dakota | No data |
| Minnesota | No data |
| Illinois | No data |
| Wisconsin | No data |
| Michigan | No data |
| New York | No data |
| Rhode Island | No data |
| Massachusetts | No data |
| Oregon | No data |
| Nevada | No data |
| Wyoming | No data |
| South Dakota | No data |
| Iowa | No data |
| Indiana | No data |
| Ohio | No data |
| Pennsylvania | No data |
| New Jersey | No data |
| Connecticut | No data |
| California | No data |
| Utah | No data |
| Colorado | No data |
| Nebraska | No data |
| Missouri | No data |
| Kentucky | No data |
| West Virginia | No data |
| Virginia | No data |
| Maryland | No data |
| Delaware | No data |
| Arizona | No data |
| New Mexico | No data |
| Kansas | No data |
| North Carolina | No data |
| South Carolina | No data |
| Oklahoma | No data |
| Louisiana | No data |
| Alabama | No data |
| Georgia | No data |
| Hawaii | No data |
itemized donors
People who gave more than $200
from Tennessee
Of itemized individual dollars
Every state the same size. Darker states gave more itemized money; hatched states had no itemized donors; the outlined state is Tennessee. Gifts of $200 or less carry no address and are left out.
Itemized, 2026 cycle.
PAC and committee contributions, 2026 cycle.
Itemized, 2026 cycle.
Aggregates only. Individual donors are never named.
Taylor voted with the majority of Tennessee Senate Republicans on 99.6% of party-line votes and missed none of 4,555 roll calls. Tennessee Senate on average: 95.3% party unity, 99.6% attendance. Across all roll calls, Taylor voted against the majority of Tennessee Senate Republicans 15 times.
4,555 roll calls Taylor could vote on in the TN 2025–26 session, compared with Tennessee Senate. Attendance is the share with a vote recorded. Party unity counts only party-line roll calls, where most Democrats and most Republicans voted on opposite sides, and is the share of those where Taylor voted with the majority of Tennessee Senate Republicans. The count of votes against that majority covers every roll call where the majority took a side.
votes against the majority of Tennessee Senate Republicans
Party unity 99.6%, Tennessee Senate average 95.3%, ranks 3rd of 33. 4,555 roll calls in the TN 2025–26 session.
The thick bar is Taylor, the thin grey bar the Tennessee Senate average. The scale runs from 80% to 100% to show the gap.
| Row | Taylor | Peers |
|---|---|---|
| Attendance | 100% | 99.6% |
| Party unity | 99.6% | 95.3% |
A missed roll call has many causes, from illness to campaigning, so attendance says how often, not why. A vote against the majority can be on procedure as well as substance, and many fall on roll calls where both parties split; the key votes below show the ones that decided something.
25 roll calls the lab flagged as key in the TN 2025–26 session
| Party split (yea–nay) | Why it’s key | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 23, 2026 | HJR 1530 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Jordyn Brown, Salutatorian, Gordonsville High School - FLOOR VOTE: Motion to Adopt 4/23/2026 Passed | Yea | With majority | pass | D 6–0 · R 27–0Democrats 6 yea, 0 nay; Republicans 27 yea, 0 nay | became law |
| Apr 23, 2026 | SJR 1267 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Liya Rakeshbhai Patel, Valedictorian, Cumberland County High School - FLOOR VOTE: Motion to Adopt 4/23/2026 Passed | Yea | With majority | pass | D 5–0 · R 27–0Democrats 5 yea, 0 nay; Republicans 27 yea, 0 nay | became law |
| Apr 23, 2026 | HB 2585 Damages - As introduced, states that the amount of damages awarded as noneconomic damages must not exceed $1 million in a health care liability action arising from obstetric or maternity negligence resulting in the death or permanent injury of a pregnant or postpartum woman. - Amends TCA Section 29- FLOOR VOTE: Third Consideration 4/23/2026 Failed | Nay | With majority | fail | D 6–0 · R 6–19Democrats 6 yea, 0 nay; Republicans 6 yea, 19 nay | party crossover |
| Apr 23, 2026 | Yea | With majority | pass | D 5–0 · R 27–0Democrats 5 yea, 0 nay; Republicans 27 yea, 0 nay | became law | |
| Apr 23, 2026 | SJR 1268 Memorials, Academic Achievement - Nicolo Azzani, Salutatorian, Cumberland County High School - FLOOR VOTE: Motion to Adopt 4/23/2026 Passed | Yea | With majority | pass | D 5–0 · R 27–0Democrats 5 yea, 0 nay; Republicans 27 yea, 0 nay | became law |
Automatically: a final-passage or override vote where the measure became law, the margin was under 10%, at least 10% of either party voted against its majority, or the bill was among the 25 most mentioned in officials’ own statements. Up to 25 per window, most recent first; five are shown. Bars show yea on the left, nay on the right, per party.
The colleagues who voted the same way as Taylor most often
The colleagues who voted the same way as Taylor least often
The share of roll calls both members voted on where they voted the same way, among colleagues sharing at least 50 such votes. High agreement with members of the other party is common on routine votes.
TN 2025–26 session, loads in batches
Taylor sponsored 129 bills in the TN 2025–26 session; 34 became law. Cosponsored 0 others. 63% of sponsored bills got out of committee (Tennessee Senate average 70%; 24th of 33).
The bills Taylor sponsored and cosponsored in the TN 2025–26 session, from the official bill records, and how far each got: introduced, referred to or acted on in committee, passed one chamber, passed both, became law. A bill counts at every stage it has reached, so the blocks only shrink to the right.
Counts for the TN 2025–26 session
| Role | Introduced | In committee | Passed one chamber | Passed both chambers | Became law |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sponsored | 129 | 124 | 39 | 34 | 34 |
| Cosponsored | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Ink blocks are bills Taylor sponsored, ochre blocks bills Taylor cosponsored; the figure above each block is the count. Most bills in any legislature never leave committee, so a short staircase is the norm.
of sponsored bills got out of committee
Tennessee Senate average 70%. Ranks 24th of 33.
Colleagues who most often cosponsor with Taylor, by number of shared bills in the TN 2025–26 session; the square shows their party.
No cosponsorship ties in this window.
The score is the share of sponsored bills that a committee reported out or a chamber passed, with at least 5 sponsored bills, ranked within the peer group. Members of the majority party and committee chairs move more bills, so the rank reflects position in the chamber as well as effort. Cosponsorship partners are the five colleagues who share the most of Taylor’s bills; the toggle shows more.
Sponsored and cosponsored, with status and policy area; five are shown, the toggle shows the rest
| SB 2729 | Shelby County - Subject to local approval, changes the conditions under which the occupancy tax will no longer be levied; changes the allocation of the revenue from the occupancy tax if the tenant of the indoor sports facility no longer occupies such facility. - Amends Chapter 131 of the Private Act | Sponsor | Apr 7, 2026 | In committee | Taxation(model) | Comp. became Pr. Ch. 70 May 27, 2026 |
| SB 2255 | Drugs, Prescription - As enacted, requires the bureau of TennCare to biannually publish two comprehensive statewide data reports on the use of psychotropic medications and the psychotropic medications' associated costs with certain list categories and data points that must be included in each report | Sponsor | Feb 2, 2026 | Became law | Health(model) | Pub. Ch. 659 Apr 6, 2026 |
| SB 2265 | Criminal Offenses - As enacted, makes various changes relative to the offense of organized retail crime. - Amends TCA Title 18; Title 38, Chapter 6, Part 1 and Title 39. | Sponsor | Feb 2, 2026 | Became law | Crime and Law Enforcement(model) | Pub. Ch. 1124 May 27, 2026 |
| SB 2405 | Law Enforcement - As enacted, establishes a Tennessee safe initiative task force, which is administratively attached to the Tennessee bureau of investigation. - Amends TCA Title 8; Title 38 and Title 39. | Sponsor | Feb 2, 2026 | In committee | Crime and Law Enforcement(model) | Comp. became Pub. Ch. 1010 May 26, 2026 |
| SB 2653 | Business and Commerce - As introduced, creates the "Tennessee Data Center Impact Review Act." - Amends TCA Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 10; Title 62; Title 65; Title 68 and Title 69. | Sponsor | Feb 2, 2026 | In committee | Commerce(model) | Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Commerce and Labor Committee Apr 7, 2026 |
A site that changed 1 time in 90 days. Taylor’s official site had 1 page when last crawled on Oct 1, 2026.
The lab crawls Taylor’s official and campaign websites (weekly for Congress, monthly for the states) and keeps every page’s text, so changes can be read later; it also records social accounts and describes the images Taylor posts with a vision model.
Official site
wapp.capitol.tn.gov/apps/legislatorinfo/member.aspx?district=S31&ga=114Last crawled Oct 1, 2026
pages crawled
changes in 90 days
pages crawled
changes in 90 days
“Pages crawled” is the size of the site at the last crawl; “changes in 90 days” counts pages whose text differed from the previous crawl. Sites change for many routine reasons, such as new press releases, so a high count is not by itself notable.
No images from Taylor’s posts have been described.
Written by a vision model and may be wrong. Open the post to see the original. Five are shown; the toggle shows the rest.
No transcribed state floor speeches are matched to this legislator yet.
Transcribed from chamber video or captions by the lab. They are not classified for kinds of statement.
How this page was made. Profile built Oct 28, 2026; site last built Oct 28, 2026. Every number on the page is computed from the sources listed here, by the same rules for every official; nothing is written by hand.
The headline is the measure on which Taylor is most unusual among State Senate Republicans, chosen by one rule for every official of every party. The candidates are the rate of each kind of statement and of extreme labels, party unity, attendance, the small-donor share, the in-state share and total receipts of the latest cycle, the share of sponsored bills that got out of committee, talk-to-bills agreement, and the CSIP score’s place within the party group.
The builder ranks every measure within the same peer group the page compares it with, and writes each official’s percentile: the share of the group below the value, ties counting half, so 0.5 is the median and a value shared by many never ranks first. A measure’s score is how far that percentile sits from the median (0 in the middle, 0.5 at either end), and the highest score leads if it is above 0.25, outside the middle half of the group. Scores within 0.03 of each other are a tie, broken in this order: votes against the party majority, kinds of statement, ideology, roll calls missed, small donations, in-state money, legislation, agreement, extreme labels, receipts.
A measure counts only with at least 200 statements, 100 roll calls or 5 sponsored bills behind it and a peer group of at least 10. Two things never lead: high party unity or attendance, where most members sit, and a high rate of a kind of statement backed by fewer than 10 statements. When nothing qualifies, the headline is a neutral fact instead: statements classified, or years in office. The wording always names the direction (“in the bottom 5% of …”, “votes against the majority of …”).
Bulk files with the same data for every official:
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